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Will you sit with me?
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I'm not sure where I am on this journey...
Will you sit with me?
Shift 14: Birthday
In a lot of ways, this is my best summer ever.
Ted’s really cool. He’s teaching me woodworking. I’ve been making sculptures.
He says most kids don’t have patience for it, because it takes so much sanding and chiseling to wear away what’s not wanted.
He says life is like that. If you want to be art, you gotta let life wear away and chisel all that gets in the way of your true form.
I think about…
View On WordPress
Reblog my selfie so I know it’s real.
J/K
I came here to talk about my feelings. I wanted to write a haiku, but I can’t contain you in a simple 5-7-5.
You’re bigger than words.
TIME
'If you think about it time isn’t linear. Every moment that has ever happened or will ever happen is happening right now. We just choose to live in this moment to create some illusion of continuity. So really we have already died and we have also not been born.'
-Jessa (GIRLS)
Haiku Catch-Up
I know I haven't posted anything in a while. Life has been sooo busy and the time that I do spend on tumblr is on the iPhone app (which I don't find it very savvy for more deep personal blogging, so I've been neglecting you all. Sorry).
There is sooo much I want to reflect on, but it's been a while since I've been on here and there is just too much to remember. Therefore, I'm just going to write a few haikus to catch you up on my life and leave it at that.
Vagina Monologues Performance
I finally learned
To love all my woman self
Even my downstairs
(Thanks to my sisters)
Valentine's Day
I still didn't have a
bae, but I had a heart shaped
pizza. Ain't that enough?
Junior Year Second Semester
Immunology
When will this torture be done?
Biochemistry
Tinder
Why do I insist
on measuring myself worth
by number of likes?
Progress on New Years Resolutions
The only thing I've
managed to successfully
complete is...nothing.
(and we're one-third through)
Resolutions 2014
Personal
Regain my spiritual connection
Be (flawless and) FEARLESS
START BEING A BOSS
Stop saying "like" so much
Write more (begin working on book)
Read more
Make a routine and stick to it!
Don't overcommit to things
Manage time better
Be more confident in self!
Speak with more authority
Relationships
Forget about the haters
Get rid of my frenemies
Throw less shade
Make an effort to spend more time with people that actually matter
Make an effort to spend more time with myself
Fall in love (first with myself, then with someone who loves me too)
Be more adult-like with my parents
Be less kid-like with my siblings
Health
Start eating healthy
Find something active that I enjoy
Work on getting the body I want (while in the mean time loving the body I have)
Become obsessed with flossing again
Use my new pore cleaner
Education
Do well on the MCATs (study for the MCATs)
Get a 4.0 for the rest of the semesters at Pitt
Secure something for my gap year
Political
Start a revolution!
Develop myself politically
Educate myself about important issues
Hang out with people that make an effort to educate themselves
Speak the TRUTH!
why is ur blog all feminist-y and raced centered all of a sudden? i didn't mind when u talked about poor people but now you talk about al this political stuff and its annoying. please stop.
Seriously? This blog is called “tayotellsthetruth”.
Our world is such that certain groups of people: women, minorities, non-cis, non-straight, and others labeled as “others” are oppressed by normative groups. I’m just trying to educate the world about this. I’m just trying to educate myself about this. I’m just trying to to tell the truth. If you don’t like what I have to say, you can unfollow.
Also, I think it’s sad that you don’t realize that a lot of these issues and poverty are linked. Poverty is systemic! I would say that I’m sure you understand this concept, but since you seem to have a narrow view of race/ gender and the need to talk about these issues, then I won’t make any assumptions.
It’s people like you who don’t understand the reason to talk about certain “awkward” topics that make me mad! We can’t spend all of our lives skirting around the difficult issues. Without this sort of discourse, there can be no progress.
xx
Tayotellsthetruth
P.S. In the words of Miley Cyrus (queen of cultural appropriation), WE CAN’T STAHPPPPP